Our Times, a weekly supplement of the Los Angeles Times, July 2, 1998:

Members of the city's Social Services Commission are asking the City Council to remove longtime homeless activist Jennafer Waggoner from the panel because of her poor attendance.

From July 1996 to April 1997, attendance records show Waggoner went to 10 of 22 meetings and left three early, which count as absences. The commission, which aims to voice the concerns of homeless and other underrepresented people, voted June 22 to ask the council to remove her....

Waggoner said a major reason she cannot attend meetings is because she is unable to get enough sleep because police constantly wake her up and ask her to move.

Lt. Gary Gallinot of the Santa Monica Police Department said officers routinely ask the homeless to move out of parks and other public areas.

He said he did not think Waggoner had been approached by police in recent months because they have been looking for her since two warrants were issued for her arrest for failing to appear in court on citations.

Santa Monica police issued one to her for destroying park foliage. Gallinot said he believes it was for sleeping in a bush.

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